Improvement in oil-can jackets



L. PETER. Oil-Gan Jacket.

Patented Jan. 15, 1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE- Louis PETER, on ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CAN JACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,222, dated January 15, 1878; application filed October 30, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Louis PETER, of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey andState of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Gan Jackets, &c.,

which invention isfully setforth in the annexed specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation; Figs. 2 and 3, detail views.

This inventionirelates to jackets for oil-cans, &c.; and consists in the method of securing the jackets to the cans by turning over the upper rim of the jacket, which is integral-- that is, in one piec ewith the jacket, upon the edge of the can, as hereinafter described.

A is the can, and B the jacket, which is made somewhat larger than the can, leaving a space, a, between them.

The jacket is first formed with a shoulder, 11, (see Fig. 3,) and then the perpendicular rim 0 left by this operation is bent over upon the edge at, thus preventing the removal of the can from the jacket, and also holding the jacket upon the can when it is moved.

By this means I form a very simple, cheap, and convenient jacket, which cannot become disarrang'ed or loosened, as the jacket and rim 0 are made in one piece.

I am aware that it is .not new to, secure a jacket to a can by bending the rim over upon the can; but so far asI am aware it is new to form such bent edge and the jacket in one piece.

I am acquainted with the patent Of Wm. Y. Horn, September 4, 1877, No. 194,821, who shows a jacket secured to the can bymeans of a wire ring, around which the rim 0 is bent, which forms .a shoulder, under which the edge of the can is held; but Mr. Horns invention is not the equivalent of mine, as he uses a.

wire run into the edge of the jacket before it is put upon the can; but with my device the edge is bent over upon the can after it is placed in the jacket, so that it is immaterial how tightly oriiloosely the jacket may fit, as the rim 0 can be bent more or less to fit it, thus rendering a tight fit certain.

By dispensing with the wire a great saving LOUIS PETER.

Witnesses O. N. WooDwARn, G. J. THOMPSON. 

